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Aww, shucks. I was hoping that my HR20-100 died this morning. Had to unplug, plug back in, wait a long time only to come to a black screen. Push red button reset, wait a long time and voila! It's back on again. I was hoping it died so DirecTV might possibly send me a new HR24 receiver with AM21.

What a disaster! All 4 of my HR's out. Trying to restore now. Can only imagine what's going on at the D* call center right now, especially because one RBR doesn't do the job. Gonna be a lot of pissed off people when they come home from vacation this weekend!

HR20-700 and HR20-100 both no response to the remote after two RBRs. Got one channel on each DVR clear as a bell though! H23-600 is fine.

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another rbr and the 700 is back, 3D update. 100 still junk, finally got it to even turn on by unplugging for a bit and three rbrs later no fix yet. Nothing more fun than a kid waking you up an hour early to tell you "Dad the TV doesn't turn on again".

Remote & front buttons unresponsive and stuck on one channel (accidentally fell asleep on the sofa last night and TV was on all night).

I did the reset which did nothing . . . and then went to the DirecTV Forums to see if anyone else was having the same issues. There were numerous posts about the same thing happening and one post indicated they had to reset twice to get the receiver responsive again.

I followed the advice & reset mine again & then it came back to life . . . remote & front buttons working again.

Oddly . . . the DirecTV Forums are now unavailable to view now as of this posting.

Both of my HR2X boxes hung this AM (HR20-700, HR23-700). The HR20-700 just needed a RBR, the HR23-700 powered up OK but a few minutes later it failed to respond to the remote and the front panel. The only thing that worked was a RBR. After the box was back up and running it locked up again. Another RBR. My H23-600 box at times failed to respond to the remote.

Looks like the "double reboot" trick will do the trick. I had to unplug and replug my HR 20-700 this morning as it was completely unresponsive. Power button wasn't even working. After the power cycle it went through the reboot steps and then just went to a black screen. A RBR after that got me back up and running.